You're in command of a West armoured squad on Kolgujev in winter time. You must destroy an enemy Main Head
Quorters in order to somewhat handicap numericly much stronger oponant, and to open the door for the planned
offensive. You must cross two thirds of the island, which is mostly in enemy hands, via northern road to succeed.

NOTES:

This is a fully blooded tank mission. It can be long and challenging, but it really depends from your 'angle of
approach'; how you're able to use the potential of yours (and some other) units, it depends from your tactical
decisions, how the enemy will (re)act on your actions, and yes, even from the luck on the battlefield.

Shortly after the mission starts, you'll receive an option to reinforce your 3 Abrams squad with an aditional unit:
a Vulcan or a Cobra helicopter. Both choices have their advantages and disadvantages, and the enemy in some ocasions
reacts on each of your choices differently. Also you'll have a Repair truck under your command; it will join you
after the fourth unit will join your squad, or after the end of provided 1 minute time limit. The options mentioned
above, and other aspects in the mission adds some randomness, which gives the mission some aditional depth, and
increase the replayability factor.

There's a total of six(6) saves in the mission: two retrys cames with the completition of the objectives,
then a standard save, and 3 retrys, which the player can access thru the Radio Command (0-0-0).

I suggest everyone give this a try :) , or maybe just me , I like tanks missions.

COLD STEEL v1.02 - Single Player mission by karantan (rado1265@email.si)
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REQUIRED OFP VERSION:
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- OFP Resistance v1.96; builded and tested with OFP GOTY Edition v1.96
REQUIRED ADDONS:
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- Kegety's Winter Kolgujev (http://ofp.gamepark.cz/islands/WinterKolgujev12.zip)
- Kegety's Winter Vehicles (http://ofp.gamepark.cz/unofaddons/KegetysWinterVehicles10.zip)
- Ash's Winter Armoured Pack (http://ofp.gamepark.cz/unofaddons/arcticvehicles3.zip)
- General Barron's Editor Update (ftp://ftp.gamepark.cz8021/ofpd/unofaddons2/editorupdate_genbed.zip)
INSTALLATION:
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Place 'Cold Steel.cain_snow.pbo' file into your Missions folder
(usually C:\Program Files\Codemasters\Operation Flashpoint\Missions)
Place the addons into your Addons folder
(usually C:\Program Files\Codemasters\Operation Flashpoint\Addons)
MISSION OVERVIEW:
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You're in command of a West armoured squad on Kolgujev in winter time. You must destroy an enemy Main Head
Quorters in order to somewhat handicap numericly much stronger oponant, and to open the door for the planned
offensive. You must cross two thirds of the island, which is mostly in enemy hands, via northern road to succeed.
NOTES:
------
This is a fully blooded tank mission. It can be long and challenging, but it really depends from your 'angle of
approach'; how you're able to use the potential of yours (and some other) units, it depends from your tactical
decisions, how the enemy will (re)act on your actions, and yes, even from the luck on the battlefield.
Shortly after the mission starts, you'll receive an option to reinforce your 3 Abrams squad with an aditional unit:
a Vulcan or a Cobra helicopter. Both choices have their advantages and disadvantages, and the enemy in some ocasions
reacts on each of your choices differently. Also you'll have a Repair truck under your command; it will join you
after the fourth unit will join your squad, or after the end of provided 1 minute time limit. The options mentioned
above, and other aspects in the mission adds some randomness, which gives the mission some aditional depth, and
increase the replayability factor.
There's a total of six(6) saves in the mission: two retrys cames with the completition of the objectives,
then a standard save, and 3 retrys, which the player can access thru the Radio Command (0-0-0).
ECP:
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This mission is designed, therefore highly recommended to play in ECP, but you shold also play it quite normally
without ECP. The mission features some of my visual enhancement scripts (armor burning, barrel burning ...),
and by my expirience they do not clash with ECP effects, quite uncontrary.
KNOWN ISSUES:
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It can happen, that the support will not reach its designated destination (from where you call them); they can
colide with an obsticle (tank wreckage, downed tree, M113 Ambulance can drive on mine ...), and make the vehicle
undrivable (but mostly they'll be still usable for repairing, rearming - a little hint), or the drivers can even
abandon their vehicle on the slightest sign of distracton. There's nothing much to do in such ocasions,
but it can help if:
- you call the support from the easy reachable place,
- the distance, that the support has to travel, is not so long; the shorter the distance,
the bigger the chance for the support to reach its destination,
- kill or destroy all the enemy in the area. Well ...
Also it can happen, that if you call the support in enemy base (once it's seized of course), the driver
from a support vehicle can gradually 'enter' in one of the buildings. I've maked, that the units can't go prone,
e.g. they can't 'move' on 'go prone - get up' manner, but they eventually can be pushed by other units, etc,
into the building. This can cause, that the lose conditions will not be met; that the enemy will not detect,
e.g. will not destroy such a 'hidden' unit, so in this case the mission will not end. But this can happen very,
very rarely (as the losing of this mission will be very rare - wouldn't be?), so bare this in mind, when you
calling a support; don't call them to close to the buildings, especially not to the non enterable ones.
ADDONS COMPATIBILITY PROBLEM:
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Kegety's Winter Kolgujev Island addon is not 'compatible' with the newest Kegety's Winter Nogojev Island addon,
so if you have both islands in your Addons folder, you may expirience some missing addon error messages despite
you have all the required addons for this mission on your system. Not my, but the addons author's fault. The easiest
and the simpliest way to overcome this problem should be to create a mod folder, and to put there the addons needed
for this mission, or just to 'hide' both (or one of them) of the island addons into the folder, and 'replace' (cut
and paste) one with the other as needed. Anyway, despite of those error messages, there should be no showstoppers
e.g. you should play the mission normally.
WARNING:
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In mission some harsh language is used. So, if you're under twelve ... you can teach me some new cursing.
AKNOWLEDGMENTS:
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My deepest gratitude goes to Hula for beta testing this mission, and especially to Mikero for beta testing it,
and purging some mission's texts from grammatical and spelling errors.
USED 3rd PARTY SCRIPTS AND ADDONS IN THE MISSION:
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I'm really and very greatful to all the authors out there, for doing such a great job, and providing the OFP
community with all that fine scripts and addons and tutorials and other useful designing tools, but in this case
I'm particulary thankful to the authors of those addons and scripts and sound files, used in this mission.
Bellow is the list of 3rd party addons and scripts and sound files, which I used in the mission. Scripts
and the sound file marked with a star are modified slightly, to meet better some mission's requests.
ADDONS:
- Winter Kolgujev from Kegety
- Winter Vehicles from Kegety
- Winter Armoured Pack from Ash
- General Barron's Editor Update or Editor Upgrade 103 from Mikero
SCRIPTS:
- AI Info Sharing Script by General Barron
- *Cluster bomb and minefield script by Sefe
- *Smoke script by Babalon.
- AI Respawn script by angusjm
- *Reinforcement script by the[]coyote
SOUND FILES:
- *Radio Noise from The-Architect
Dear Englishmen (and all the others)! Please forgive me any and all spelling and grammar mistakes I made
in this mission and elsewhere.
And you know: this is unofficial blah blah blah ... so use it blah blah blah ... If something bad happens
to your computer or blah blah blah ... you can sue me as many times as you like.
I HOPE YOU'LL ENJOY THE MISSION!

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